HoTT Faculty
HoTT brings together faculty in English, History, Information Sciences, Modern Languages, and Religion, among others. Incorporating seven new faculty hires between 2007 and 2009 (made possible by the competitive cluster-hiring initiative of Pathways of Excellence), HoTT builds on existing excellence in Text Technologies at FSU, and aims to develop a new, interdisciplinary doctoral program, and to facilitate the highest quality research in the field. The program focuses chiefly on the history of text and textual communities in Western Europe, especially in the related literatures and cultures of Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain over the last two millennia. In this lengthy story of how texts have evolved and have transformed cultures—from tablet to roll to book to computer and from inscription to handwriting to print to digitization—our focus is on textual production, transmission, transformation, and reception. In our teaching and research, we recognize that new technologies are crucial tools for studying older technologies.
Late-Medieval and Renaissance literature with specializations in French-English literary relations, translation, and early printing.
François Dupuigrenet-Desroussilles — Professor of ReligionHistory and ethnography of religion with a research focus on the history of the Christian Bible and Christian anthropology.
Paul Fyfe — Assistant Professor of EnglishVictorian literature and culture with research interests in print culture and media history and the history of technology.
David Gants — Associate Professor of EnglishHumanities computing and history of the book with specialization in the evolution of the print trade from 1450-1700 to the current digital transformation.
S.E. Gontarski — Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of EnglishTwentieth-century Irish studies and European Modernism with specializations in contemporary publishing trends and performance theory.
Will Slauter — Assistant Professor of HistoryHistory of media and communication in early modern Europe and the Atlantic World with research interest in the history of intellectual property in journalism.
Elizabeth Spiller — Professor of EnglishEarly modern literature and culture with special emphasis on literature, science, and other early modern knowledge arts.
Gary Taylor — HoTT Director & George Matthew Edgar Professor of EnglishFounding director of the History of Text Technologies Program, whose specialties include editorial theory, printed and manuscript texts of early modern drama, and the history of publishing.
Elaine Treharne — Professor of EnglishEarly English literature with special emphasis on the use and production of Anglo-Saxon and Medieval manuscripts and texts.
Lori Walters — Harry F. Williams Professor of Modern LanguagesMedieval and Renaissance French literature with special interest in literature in its manuscript context.
Wayne Wiegand — F. Williams Summers Professor of Library and Information Sciences & Prof. American StudiesHistory of the American library with special interest in American book history and the history of reading in everyday life.
Affiliated Faculty
Francis Cairns — Professor of ClassicsMedieval and Renaissance Latin literature
Bryan J. Cuevas — Associate Professor of ReligionTibetan and Buddhist texts
Nancy de Grummond — M. Lynette Thompson Professor of ClassicsEtruscan Text Technology
Leigh H. Edwards — Associate Professor of EnglishMedia studies, with particular emphasis on television and music and American literature and popular culture from the 19th century to the present
Barry Faulk — Associate Professor of EnglishCritical theory and late nineteenth and twentieth century popular culture, with particular emphasis on music
Kristie S. Fleckenstein — Associate Professor of EnglishVisual literacy and composition pedagogy
Paula Gerson — Professor of Art HistoryMedieval art and architecture.
Keith Howard — Assistant Professor of Modern LanguagesEarly Modern Spanish-Italian interactions
David Johnson — Professor of EnglishOld English, Latin, and Germanic textuality
Stephanie Leitch — Assistant Professor of Art HistoryEarly Modern prints
Joseph R. McElrath — William Hudson Rogers Professor of EnglishLate nineteenth-century American prose
Dennis Moore — Associate Professor of EnglishColonial American prose
Mary Pohl — Laura Jepsen Professor of AnthropologyMesoamerican writing systems
Amit S. Rai — Associate Professor of EnglishGlobal media ecologies
Robert Romanchuk — Associate Professor of Modern LanguagesMedieval Slavic
Cristobal Silva — Assistant Professor of EnglishEpidemiology and colonial American print
Philip E. Steinberg — Professor of GeographyHistory of cartography
Ned Stuckey-French — Assistant Professor of EnglishPost-1900 American publishing
Silvia Valisa — Assistant Professor of Modern LanguagesNineteenth-century Italian publishing
Eric Walker — Associate Professor of EnglishBritish Romantic textuality
Lauren S. Weingarden — Associate Professor of Art HistoryModernist word and image
Jimmy Yu — Assistant Professor of ReligionHistory and ethnography of religions